while oSB allready includes a zoom option, i still have to thank you dear dev for all the years i were able to use this mod :)

finally i got description that explains and confirms that you can't mod zoom to floats and there is indeed hotkey problem for everything that is why you have to click around like madman everywhere.

Perhaps someone know, is string search also an engine problem in FU research tree? I'm kinda that tired of that category clicking to the point that i'd like to add string search there myself

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you

works well with this mod:
https://sp.zhabite.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2916058850&tscn=1725833052

@Survivor_Squad If you want more zoomed out when at 1x Zoom, change you game resolution to the higher level. Using a smaller resolution cause 1x Zoom to be closer in due to the way Starbound scales based on Pixel amount.

I understand you cant use decimals, so you cant make it zoom out any farther than it already is can you?

4th page of comments says clientside :D time to enjoy near full zoom, or atleast enough to still read chat boxes

@Patchumz Yeah you make a fair point.

@Spectreblitz the only questions that actually get asked and ignored are specifically addressed in the mod description and then asked and responded to a number of times in the comments. No point reiterating the same thing.

I didnt mean dead mod, I meant you dont answer questions lol

Oh, the game engine itself doesn't support decimal zoom?

Which one exactly?

They should bring back some of th stuff they cut out during alpha phase....

+1

It's not about it being dead, just that there's nothing that can be done to it unless a big engine change goes through, and the game is basically out of that kind of development now. We'd all like if they modified the engine to support hotkeys and bring back decimal support, but the game is basically in maintenance mode now.

guys, last updated in 2017, stop bothering to ask for things on a dead item

Not possible due to hardcoded zoom levels. They're a multiple of a whole, so 1x, 2x, 3x...

Could you add in integer sizes, such as 1.5 and 2.5 please?

Only integers are possible, so everything below 1 is unfeasible. Yes, that's an engine limitation and nothing a mod can circumvent AFAIK.

@Hyperspec

Not sure that x0.01 is possible due to engine limitations

Finaly! ive been looking for this for a while
also it will be funny once you add x0.01 Its a single pixel

great for seeing your build as a whole

It is a shame you can't have hotkeys to change the zoom level. That would have been so nice.

Technical limitations.

Never due to hard-coded gameplay.

x0.5 when?

is it possible to go even further than x1?

Very easy to use

Why did steam unsubscribe me from this?

Aw, I was looking for a mod that allows me to zoom via hotkey so I don't have to use the menu every time I get into or out of a mech. But I see now that the reason none of these exist is that you can't do it. Silly that the option doesn't already exist in the game but oh well. Glad to have at least found this answer.

Also wouldn't mind a 2.5 zoom as a compromise instead of switching, but it appears you can't do that anymore either. That's disappointing, and it's totally not your fault. Good mod, shame about the limitations from the game itself.

Due to the fact we can't use intermediate zoom levels, the next one below 1 would be 0 of what I think this won't work.

It would be nice, if you can add more level, so we can zoom OUT even more.

Let's say I have a very-very large build, the 1x zoom level is just not enough, the building, ship, whatever is just don't fit into one screen. We need to take several screenshots.

Of course, we can combine it into one big image, but that requires an external software.
When you have several giant builds, that took just too much time to do it. And there are people out there who doesn't even know how to do it...

Real sad about there being no 1.5. Oh well, thanks anyway

Intermediate values are no longer possible due to a Starbound update itself long ago.

Would anyone know of a Zoom mod that goes in increments of halfs as well?
2.5 is my prefered playable interface as 2 or 3 feels to large / small.
I believe this mod had done this before but was changed years ago?

If anything Im really just gonna use this for screenshots. Useful mod tho

I assumed it was this mod. It happened right after I installed it. No doubt, a coincidence. I was just showing off my ship to friends. It's so big it still took 3 screens at 1x zoom. Thanks for actually paying attention to your comment section.

Nearly impossible for this mod to affect your game in any way, good or bad. It's merely unlocking a limit in the settings. Thus your problem stems from somewhere else.

I couldn't replicate the issue, but I recommend returning zoom to 2 or more before exiting the game just in case.

I had an issue with this. I tried closing my game with the zoom at 1, and my PC froze up. I had to initiate a shutdown to force it to close the Starbound game. I couldn't even get the task manager to come up to shut it down. Gonna see if it does it again.

I'm honestly curious where the 20 level version of this went.

@Gay Furry Sparrow Watts Yes, it is.

Is this client side?

useful, since i enabled hi-dpi override and the zoom is fucking killing my laptop

essential.

Not possible because of the game itself, unfortunately.

i would love to have 1.5x zoom as 1 is too far out 2 is too far in.

Yes, the engine was changed years ago to prevent this and mods can't touch that stuff. The original version of this mod had fractional zoom levels, but it was removed when the game was updated.

So it's engine limitations that prevent fractional zoom? What files are related to the engine?

@goldbrains No, it's not possible to lower the zoom below 1, which is as far out as it lets you. Hardcoded unfortunately.

does this allow me to zoom out further than normal ?